A 16-year-old boy is being charged as an adult in connection to the armed robbery of a Pahokee Food Market store clerk in December.

Frederick Gordon, a Pahokee resident, appeared in court Tuesday morning to set bond on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, armed robbery and kidnapping. He was arrested Oct. 15, court records show, but is now being charged as an adult.

The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office reports that Gordon approached a store clerk coming out of the Food Market just before midnight Dec. 18 wearing a black plastic mask. The store clerk was carrying $6,000 in a plastic shopping bag, an arrest report states.

The 40-year-old store clerk told detectives that he tucked the $6,000 under the seat of his car before Gordon approached. Gordon ordered him at gunpoint to give him the money, but the clerk said he had none and handed him his wallet with only credit cards, the report states.

Gordon then told the clerk to open the doors to the Food Market, but the clerk said he had no key. The clerk told Gordon that the only person with a key was a coworker who lived at Sugar Cane Apartment Complex, just two blocks west of the store.

Gordon forced the clerk into the car at gunpoint, getting into the backseat, and ordered him to drive to the apartment complex, detectives say. When they arrived at the coworker’s apartment, Gordon made the clerk knock on the door while holding a gun to his head, the report says.

The clerk then wrestled the gun from the teen, who then fled from the scene.

Police matched Gordon’s DNA to the black plastic mask he wore and the store clerk identified Gordon’s voice in October, the report states.